From: Daniel Mayer <maveric149(a)yahoo.com>
Neat! But who gets to mark an edit as
"patrolled"? Letting an anon or
new user
do that would tend to defeat the purpose. Also, depending on a single
person's
judgment may be problematic as well. Ideally an article would need to
be viewed
by 3 non-newbies/anons to get the "patrolled" tag.
I don't think so. It's not as if marked articles would never be looked
at. The function of the feature, as I see it, is not to be technical
armor against bad behavior and bad faith, but to reduce Wikistress by
insuring that many eyes _do not_ look at new articles if many eyes are
not needed.
I think it's a very good idea. And it doesn't need to work perfectly in
order for it to work.
I don't think it will help dramatically, but I think it will help
noticeably.
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